Randomly Generating Atari Games

Texas Museum Discovers Never-Before-Seen Atari 2600 Game From Raiders Of The Lost Ark & E.T. Artist

Graphics from the game 'Earthquake' recently recovered.The National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas announced on social media recently that it had discovered graphics for a never-before-seen Atari 2600 title, in a batch of floppy disks belonging to the ex-Atari artist Jerome Domurat.Domurat, in case you're unfamiliar, was an artist that worked at Atari between 1981 to 1986, and is best known for his collaborations with the developer Howard Sco…

Finding Atari games in randomly generated data

Brian Benchoff initiated a project to generated around 30 Billion individual 4kB files of random data. These files were winnowed down to about 10,000 through some heuristics gleaned from a complete collection of Atari ROM files. Finally, a classifier system scanned them using an Atari 2600 emulator to see if any of the random files were actually an Atari game. This project answers a question no one asked, no one wanted: What if one shoved a bill…

Randomly Generating Atari Games

They say that if you let a million monkeys type on a million typewriters, they will eventually write the works of Shakespeare. While not quite the same thing [bbenchoff] (why does that sound famili…